Rather than aiming to fix what is broken, healing-centered philanthropy cultivates the conditions that make healing possible.

Technology, financing, and policy changes haven’t been enough to solve the global food crisis. Could a mindset transformation help?

The U.S. Agency for International Development distributes a lot of foreign aid through local partners in other countries. J. David Ake/Getty Images Susan Appe, University at Albany, State University of New York The U.S. government gives other nations US$68 billion of foreign assistance annually – more than any other country. Over half of this sum

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Jessyca Dudley, founder of Bold Ventures makes the case as to why we must distinguish between generosity and reciprocity in philanthropy especially for those holding the resources and what to make lasting change.

With Giving Tuesday coming up, the right strategy can make all the difference. In this installment of Ask Rhea, Rhea Wong covers what to do to make the most of it.

How nonprofits can act when commitments to justice and empowerment are tested inside their own workplace.

How to name and identify organizational patterns as a path to developing new authentic ways of being, to truly advance organizational mission.

Access to polls for disabled voters are dismal in some areas. This election, nonprofits from Michigan, New York, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Nebraska gear up to fight back.

We have a particular way of praising nonprofits. We say they do so much with so little. Yet what would it take to build a legacy of success without the organization bearing unnecessary strain?

Three years after its approval, did the Human Service Workforce Advancement ordinance meaningfully change labor relations inside publicly funded nonprofits in Chicago?

The South’s long tradition of organizing for justice offers a lesson for America at 250: Invest in the people building what comes next.

In an era of widespread anger over unaffordability, corruption, inequality, and sclerotic institutions, we need to think much bigger about reforming American democracy. A past failed anti-poverty program could provide ideas for a path forward.

California Faith Leaders Walk 96 Miles to Demand End to ICE Detention, completing a 96 mile trek.

Philanthropy presents itself as a mechanism for solving inequality. But the structure through which philanthropic money moves can reproduce a familiar hierarchy.

A public-housing decarbonization campaign shows how sustained cross-sector organizing and a deep relationship between a funder and an organizing coalition can build long term power.

Reparations forces the question the United States of America has avoided since its founding: What does justice require after a government has caused, sanctioned, or benefited from brutality against its own citizens?

Even wearing a T-shirt and jeans, Marvin Dunn still has the military bearing of the naval officer he once was. Dunn grew up in the 1940s under Jim Crow. Now, at the age of 86, he’s anything but retired.

Black Yard Farm is an opportunity to hold space for this knowledge and build new restorative systems that value all beings present, working the land and beyond. We are owed the same opportunities to build sustainable, profitable businesses that nourish our lives and communities.

For years, nonprofit organizations have asked Americans to believe in the power of collective action. But what happens when the workplace itself falls short of the values an organization promotes publicly?

Participatory coordination can be translated into a practical platform framework that connects three forms of community capacity: human expression and need, underutilized resources, and voluntary contribution.

US elections are sometimes decided by close margins, but we’ve stopped building the machinery to register voters.

How legal aid groups survived the administration’s attacks—barely.

The history of Reconstruction teaches us that the demand for freedom must be sustained through coalition, institution building, disinformation resistance, and intergenerational truth-telling.

A new rule impacting mail-order ballots has been blocked, but the broader significance extends far beyond mail voting.

What does it mean for a nonprofit festival to happen in Silicon Valley, where technology companies wield enormous influence over which stories travel and reach an audience?

Historically, Latine communities have supported Democrats over Republicans. But come November, we might see a surge of voters fed up with the current administration’s anti-immigrant agenda and economic strains. Nonprofits led by Latine advocates are betting that anger will win over the Republican’s fear tactics.

When funders insist on certain categories of evidence, they are not simply asking organizations to count things. They are determining what—and whose voice—counts.

Some 18,000 private schools could be affected by a proposed new rule if it goes into effect. Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Elizabeth Schmidt, UMass Amherst The Trump administration wants to strip all nonprofit colleges, universities and private K-12 schools of their tax-exempt status if any of their programs designed to help students

New York has an opportunity to rethink what affordability and local food actually mean.

In the social support ecosystem, participatory coordination connects needs, capabilities, resources, and opportunities—and shifts the focus shifts from processing transactions to building rituals.

At a time when the nonprofit sector is navigating an existential breaking point, boards that lack interest in governance or the skills to meet fiduciary responsibilities are a weak link between a public desperate for support and the organizations stepping in to meet needs the government has abandoned.

The video game industry has long thrived off the work of exploited workers. While the recent wave of layoffs is nothing new, the rise in unionization is a more recent occurrence growing in popularity.

A multiracial feminist democracy depends on ensuring the conditions exist to make democratic participation possible for everyone, on the legal certainty of bodily autonomy, and on a commitment to intersectional belonging.

Two women whose families were connected by slavery uncover the history of how a thriving Black community in Virginia was wiped out in the 1910s by white violence.

Narrative power is essential infrastructure for ending gender-based violence.

Is the labor movement the most reliable defender of workers in the age of artificial intelligence?

What happens in the narrow window between a nonprofit deciding it can’t continue and actually disappearing? Rescue capital often determines an organization’s chance of survival and points to broader equity challenges for the nonprofit sector.

Nonprofits in Central and Eastern Europe have built practical responses to keep operating during times of crisis. For American organizations, learning from those approaches could make survival and endurance possible.

Collective care and abolition work has long served as vital infrastructure for communities in the United States. Here, we acknowledge its deep-rooted lineages.

The deployment of federal agents to multiple legal organizations may be a warning to other nonprofits.

Our data suggest that a significant amount of foundation dollars in California appears to be shifting away from organizations working to hold systems accountable for protecting the rights of girls and gender-expansive youth, including those most at risk under this current political climate.

What will a more accessible and liberatory future look like in the next 250 years? Here’s a north star vision for what justice can look like for disabled people in the United States.

If we are prepared and play our cards right, we may have a window of opportunity to build new election systems that reflect Americans’ choices.

Race Forward and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sit down to talk about how philanthropy can support partnership and shared power between communities and government through investment.

The nonprofit sector needs organizations that can deliver services without requiring extraordinary people to absorb extraordinary amounts of institutional pressure—organizational design provides the roadmap for doing so.

As cities respond to increasing climate disasters and development pressure, the communities most at risk are the ones with no voice. Could Community-Driven Planning be the solution?

Right now is one of the toughest periods for immigration nonprofits across the country, a fact that is very apparent in Springfield, Ohio.

When communities lose the institutions that connect people to one another, they lose confidence in democracy.

Amidst a backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion work, it is critical to recall the intention behind the work in the first place—which is to advance progress for communities being left behind.